In Reply to: nope posted by late on November 29, 2001 at 06:20:13:
Arthur C Clarke first wrote about geostationary orbiting satellites in 1945 while he was still with the RAF. To suggest he was ignored is nonsense- (you do know why this idea wasn't seized upon immediately I take it ),but it was an amateur's idea published in an amateur magazine (Wireless World), not a paper presented by an academic published in a peer reviewed journal.Anyway, what has AC Clarke got to do with TV shows ? His own TV show- AC CLarke's World of Unmitigated Paranormal Shite and othe Crap- shows he had a degree of contempt for his audience.
"For a lengthy quite serious look at the relationship of good, imaginative scifi and reality"
What has that got to do with TV SF ?
Does the book mention "Super Heroes done seriously" ?
"Scifi is about imagination." No it isn't. SciFi is mostly about making money from adolescents, and those who have not left adolescence.
SF is way cool dude, it's about science and stuff.
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Follow Ups
- Re: nope - john dem 12:20:40 11/29/01 (23)
- John, you have a right to an educated opinion ... - Audiophilander 21:26:22 11/29/01 (16)
- Super Auph to the rescue ! - john dem 22:07:17 11/29/01 (15)
- Up, up and away! - Audiophilander 06:58:32 11/30/01 (14)
- Defying logic is not a super power, Super Auph. - john dem 11:24:18 11/30/01 (12)
- The poster's logic lacks Vulcanization! ;^) - Audiophilander 01:31:05 12/01/01 (11)
- You're the one burning rubber to get away from your absurd assertions. - john dem 13:56:17 12/01/01 (10)
- To the contrary, my prophylactic response is quite logical: - Audiophilander 15:07:22 12/03/01 (0)
- the remains of the day - late 18:49:17 12/01/01 (8)
- Re: the remains of the day - Bruce from DC 06:40:19 12/03/01 (1)
- good post, minor quibble(s) - late 07:27:57 12/07/01 (0)
- Enter late, defender of the punyverse. - john dem 19:42:47 12/01/01 (5)
- intuitively obvious to the casual observer - late 21:51:33 12/01/01 (4)
- Yes, it is obvious. - john dem 23:09:50 12/01/01 (3)
- naught, plus naught, equals... - late 07:35:17 12/02/01 (2)
- Yawn...it must be late. - john dem 13:58:05 12/02/01 (1)
- Don't like losing, do you? --nt-- - late 16:16:35 12/02/01 (0)
- a tinker's damn - late 08:09:55 11/30/01 (0)
- semi-curmudgeonly - Bruce from DC 16:13:57 11/29/01 (2)
- ya done good - late 17:03:47 11/29/01 (0)
- No curmudgeonly argument here. - john dem 16:44:20 11/29/01 (0)
- the critic speaks - late 12:31:21 11/29/01 (2)
- What "tech" in the 50's are you talking about ? - john dem 12:47:12 11/29/01 (1)
- yes, and no - late 13:44:41 11/29/01 (0)